the study actually suggested. the long term effects may not just be the absence of benefit but actually very very because. the coronavirus pandemic is being accompanied by a global outbreak of conspiracy theories in part aided and abetted it seems by remarks coming out of the white house. of the month of fasting and prayer known as ramadan starts muslim communities the world over find themselves unable to or stumble in mosques shut down by the pandemic. the u.k. enjoys some lovely spring sunshine prompting many to ignore stern government warnings down flouts knock down flooding the country's parks and beaches. and creature comforts with many struggling in south bias elation zoos have gone online to give people a chance to pitch their animals remotely our correspondent gave it

a try you. just have. a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is r.t. international with minichiello and let's begin with the latest update on the global covert 19 situation the pandemic is still raging with 2700000 cases now confirmed and the number of fatal ots has surpassed 192000 but over 757000 people have recovered. well korda virus isn't the only thing that spreading during this pandemic conspiracy theories about the origins of covert 19 have swung to the internet as artie's caleb maupin looks at why they gaining so much traction. the coronavirus

can demick is opening up weird new horizons for online conspiracy theorists the virus was bioengineered in a lab by scientists to be used as a weapon or a form of population control this is a theory the form of politician bronwyn bishop has also suggested it is to get rid of nonproductive chinese in the chinese community in the words of george that is who should be eliminated. so they don't have to be but it's getting beyond just talk hashtags don't your hospital is saying that the corona virus is just a big hoax and urging people to come out of lockdown nothing going on here not burn up and go on arm. chair.

things are starting to get frightening to as individuals who believe these ideas take action neo nazis and white supremacists capitalized on the lists and publish them aggressively across their values using the data far and extremist who are calling for harassment campaign while sharing conspiracy theories about the coronavirus the damage someone dumped thousands of personal email addresses and passwords online now the information allegedly belongs to people working to fight against the pandemic people working with the gates foundation the national institutes of health the centers for disease control the world health organization and yes even the woo han institute of uralla the distribution of this alleged e-mail credentials or just another part of a month's long initiative across the far right to weaponize decode the 1900. 90 s. certainly cannot blame anyone for people believing can see. seriously theories but

the fact that the white house has latched on to their ideas is certainly not helping at this point we've got the white house encouraging distrust of a vital international body that's working against the pandemic had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death we still don't have the transparency and openness we need in china and it is the world health organization's responsibility to achieve that transparency they're not doing it they need to be held accountable and now the world health organization has been targeted as has the han lap top u.s. brass continue to insist have possibly been a source of the pandemic we know that there is that one institute of oil just a handful of miles away from where the wet market was there still lots to learn you

should know that the united states government is working diligently to figure this out amid the fear and uncertainty it's human nature to pursue opportunities but what's needed now is global togetherness in the face of the pandemic not naysayers chancers and governments weaponized martin r.t. new york privacy concerns are being aggravated as governments try to tackle the pandemic play to the bulletin we look at how tech giant tough fling with european states over when data collected by and new contact tracing up should be kept on people fluent phones or in state service pastoring still to come. but the u.k. is enjoying a spell of sunny weather at ordinarily a welcome thing but now it's a concern as people visit parks and beaches flouting the nationwide lockdown has our teeth a study at woodstock stay with more. britain is by no means out of the danger zone but despite that as you say the u.k. is witnessing

a growing number of people have been caught out in about breaking these lockdown measures that of course of the been in place now for well over a month and that really is the concern going forward as the weeks all turning into months people of feeling isolated and cooped up plus quite crucially at this stage the weather is significantly improving across the united kingdom we are witnessing some of the hottest days of the year quite up in normal and uncharacteristic for what is usually quite rainy days in this april season but it's sunny and we are now seeing many people are yet again in these lockdown measures now these breaches actually come as the death toll remains quite high across the united kingdom the latest figures show that the numbers have cling to the 20000 mark just in the last 24 hours alone we've seen 616 deaths now as we know in the united kingdom the government's policy has always been led by the medical experts and the science experts all know who say that if we relax these measures too much too soon we could

even see a resurgence in this virus in fact a leading government science expects even anticipates that social distancing you know that to meet its distance will have to remain in place indefinitely until a vaccine is found available in the long run the exit from this is going to be one of 2 things ideally one of which is a highly effective vaccine in the variety of ways vaccines can be deployed or and or highly effective drugs so that people stop dying of this disease into we have those and the probability of having those anytime in the next calendar year incredibly small and i think we should be realistic about that and we're going to have to rely on other social measures well while maintaining a distance might well be well and good opposition party leaders think the united kingdom's response has been actually quite frankly too little too late that comes. as i already mentioned. persistent reports of a lack of preventative equipment to staff at hospitals and care homes testing or

not enough transparency in what happens next what does the future look like person these are really serious and very pressing issues for many people across the united kingdom and the opposition leader the new opposition leader secure starman lost in scathing attack on the government saying something's going very wrong indeed with the government's policy and something's going wrong with the supply the merger here we were slowed to look slow and. slow and protective equipment are now slow to take up the. well one of the biggest issues is mentioned there is this lack of testing for the virus but dominic rob who's the foreign secretary of course the man standing in for boris johnson you know he himself is fighting off kind of 19th well he has denied that the government has been too slow and even insisted that he was confident the government were to reach the target of a 100000 test a day by the end of this month which is by the way self-imposed deadline but as we

had ever closer to the end of the month in fact it's just less than a week away that they can seems really really way off the united kingdom a president who only has a capacity to 40000 test a day just over half of that number actually being carried out latest biggest just around terms 2000 so we're still around 80000 shy so it really does seem highly likely that that target will be missed as we know all of the effects of this virus having impact also on the economy now the bank of england warns actually of one contraction in centuries it's of course no surprise that konami activity has been completely ground to a halt but the key question is how does the united kingdom recover not just financially but physically as well. and record number of americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the last week there's over 3000000. lost their jobs since the outbreak of coronavirus almost 30000000 people in the u.s. have signed on and it's fair this number will keep soaring in the coming weeks

despite the government's dumping up funds to help businesses retain stuff but the u.s. senate majority leader has questioned additional spending on benefits pointing out that it would add to america's national debt that's what it is very carefully because the future of our coverage from there were you know is a matter of genuine concern what you're seeing is the worst collapse of capitalism in the united states since the great depression of the 1930 s. in the united states and in most other countries political leadership sailed to prepare in the same way that they failed to prepare for the coronavirus and so now we have 2 crises on top of one another an unprepared for viral pandemic and unprepared for capitalist downturn because the

downturn is worse since it took 10 or 11 years and because we have this virus it is it extreme collapse of capitalism and no one at this point can tell you clearly how bad it will get or how long it will last. the federal budget committee shaz us senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's concerns over debt and has predicted that the national debt could potentially if the past post world war 2 wreck ords the u.s. treasury secretary is adamant though that the trunk administration will spend whatever it takes economists richard wolffe again say is government is the only force that can solve the current crisis but is being held back. we now have somewhere between 27 and 30000000 people unemployed that is by the way a serious on do it kind of disappoint the only thing would be

a massive intervention by the state by the government to try to do that no other social source exists in the western capitalist parts of the world but probably anywhere other than the government and here then is the problem the government is controlled in the united states and in most other parts of the capitalist world by the private capitalist sector and they don't want the government to take steps that threatens their control so the government can't do. a lockdown taking its toll and many are in need of critic comfort as well better than an angry pet friendly alpaca got up close and personal with the adorable animals albeit via video link. so it's friday.

why way it's quarantine days 795 full disclosure i'm a big i pretty much only subscribe to dog accounts on instagram and those are amazing because they're loving that entertaining and they help to reduce anxiety and depression and let's be honest be cooped up for weeks on end in south isolation is sending some people stress levels through the roof now i don't have a pet to help me through these tough times but i found the next best thing was actually it's all over the world of giving you a screen tired with your favorite farmyard creatures of stooges miniature donkeys goats cows pigs you name it you consume of them at a price well i obviously did my research and a killer animal caught my eye i give you. the humble alpaca. who. go. to the course.

more to success i've not done much interaction with benny one for several weeks poolside this has been a huge hit hundreds of animals have already crashed conference schools and online classes because that's fun big break up the monotony of corentin life and the net spirits but crucially a lifeline for struggling businesses unlike restaurants or museums places like zoos can't just shut the doors and wait for this all to end they have mouths to feed and out of those are expensive they need food vet. as well as constant attention. on

the way we work according to the plan but without visitors it makes it difficult because when people come it helps us to move forward both financially and in other directions the park is a what attracts people to our farm people come they watch and talk with the animals then go to our store where they can buy our products it's all linked to each other all together it brings as income. but no revenue for visitors so using johnny for example have appealed for public donations and asking for a 100000000 euro bailout from the government the situation is so dire that one sale in the north of the country said in a worst case scenario it might have to feed animals to each other because of the financial pressure and here the alpaca farmer says he's trying to be proactive and use this time off why is he but admits others will not come out of this crisis quite as well. if you take our farm for example and we have

a relatively good situation the land is our property and despite the fact that there are no visitors we use this time to repair or build something new people who rent their territories they physically have nothing to do or improve their they're in a worse situation maybe some will even close i feel sorry for the animals we have the opportunity to stay with them all the time while others for example in zoos cannot so maybe next time you have a spare moment pick an animal any animal not to soon and then to medical business a helping hand and just feel your stress way and if you don't think you can handle on our pocket one might not for everyone that make a party out of. well

coming up after the break.

with good reason public discourse is focused on addressing and finally each containing the coping $1000.00 pandemic now the focus is on devastated economies where the recession will it morphed into a depression with the recovery being you d. or anything else. welcome back muslims around the world are going to celebrate the holy month of ramadan in isolation where the most mosques closed and well it just services suspended muslims are unable to participate in traditional mass pres only i spoke to my gown see about how typical ramadan practices have been adopted during the pandemic. this is the 1st day of a ramadan that is unlike any other unlike anything that muslims expected this is

a very difficult time of ramadan and the lockout jenna's hotel or with public gatherings bandaging ramadan including communal prayers speeches and so on remember to continue your prayers and devotions in self isolation you might think that ramadan is an individual thing that you could be fast by yourself at home but in fact ramadan is it's a very social thing there's a huge aspect of it that is community that is social it is your neighbors and your family for example families wake up together to pray in the morning to eat it for a very difficult day at the end of that day they get together with the entire communities entire towns and they celebrate they eat they pray they they they said listen it is you know a long and difficult one hungry day food at last people have been deprived of the social aspects for now there's also a whole host of things the things that muslims stay away from so for the to the

generation of the fast while the sun is up people refrain from entertainment various forms of entertainment and on top of that there's all the other challenges there's the quarantine there's millions of people who don't have enough money who don't live in a country where the government can give them money to stay in self isolation for a month people facing very difficult challenges we must accept ramadan as a test sent to us by allah we lived and sometimes forgot about who gave us hope of life wellbeing and work today there is an opportunity to think to look at the past and into the future again muslims are a quarter of the world's population and for the next month. many of them will be exhausted as her hopes that medical arguments here to be made whether whether you know some people should be exempt others shouldn't and they are they are religious

leaders and leaders of muslim nations are exhibiting nurses for example medical staff doctors from the past because they're working in incredibly stressful conditions especially now they're wearing heels personal protection equipment eat is very difficult work they have a new room that sarah no room to make mistakes and they're being exempt from the fast if a doctor asks a person not to fast as it might affect his immunity then the person has the right not to fast during ramadan workers in the health sector also have the islamic right to choose not to fast during their days of this you muslims around the world the voice that they will abide by 3 least one of the 5 pillars of islam the month of ramadan but this is going to be a very different and a very difficult month for many. un warns

that the corona virus outbreak could trigger another global disaster a hunger pandemic of biblical proportions the situation is already dire some 135000000 people are facing crisis levels of hunger and the u.n. says that that number could double because of covert 19 we spoke to hell out of the un special rapporteur on the right to food she told us more about the unfolding food catastrophe. heard it was the crew here curse it was such a global pandemic to come but how to emergency that syria's let alone could emerge and still of course some countries that are major stable could explore terrorists like us russia and china have significant stocks. next to the importers they come to serve such a comfortable position that that's a there's going to need a serious some course some countries. now it's all 2 times until

20190200 1000000 people are severely insecure in basically a purely country but the real me is this if they stumble they don't know and maybe it will not or maybe it will mark sort of if we are in. uncharted territory yet about actually behind them came in at a time then there was not my problem there was no hooked up like iran there was no significant. pool to the really to be hairy now a little itty sure but many rock the global supply chain because of lockdown and mobility to this trick and today they are mostly relying on global south like chains and almost all countries are depending on imports from fort and or even inside of the country consists of are dependent on transportation from crime to

take. this change of their prices go up to that cannot reach to market. and major put in security is starts. being serious. pain nations led by germany are pushing for a coronavirus tracing app to be rolled out the system is aimed at containing that spread all of that is that used by alerting uses if they've been. in contact with infected people apple and google are developing the app and paris are unhappy with it because apple's privacy policy won't let them access users personal data they've asked the tech giants to resolve this issue and thereby speed up the rollout of the app across europe one place where contact tracing has already proved successful inflaming the spread of covert 19 is singapore. get peace of mind for you and your family to communities in context racing trace together helps contact races notify

you more quickly this contact with the truth igniting whether or not kill the person. they soundly has been at the core of the dispute between governments and the tech firms germany and others have opted for a centralized approach meaning that the registered data will be stored on a government run server but apple and google insist on keeping sensitive data on private devices meanwhile scientists from around the world have warned that contact tracing apps can be exploited to keep tabs on people we are concerned that some solutions to the crisis may via mission creep result in systems which would allow on president it's surveillance of society at large social media lawyer yaya cohen told is there is a risk that contact tracing will continue once the crisis is over. the real dispute is about how mobile telephone telephone of going to communicate with each other and who'll be able to train in my daily in-store dillies of contacts

the problem with these things is that no other g.'s there once did you even heard of the vault and you cannot truly put it back that the central government will be able to troops movement of people in of course misuse the technology in order to find out who the people are what they're up to perhaps someone might be using the information for for political advantage is. special platform to inform on paypal violating the lockdown in new york has been suspended downfall to it was bombarded with names and prime post. now it's as simple as taking a photo all you got to do is take the photo and put the location with it and

send a photo like this and we will make sure that in force from comes right away comrade citizen reports all suspected anti distancing activities to friend the new york ministry of social cleanliness. reports what is this 99000 for. start flooding their reporting tax number was this fix.

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